March 2016

How do you find the highest quality patents reliably and efficiently? We share our methodology and have made the code and model available under a Creative Commons license. Here, we’ve identified five primary factors for consideration in patent ranking.

We’ve identified five primary factors for consideration in patent ranking. In this article, we’ll analyze how independent claim count, claim 1 word count, and family size & international filings can help to eliminate less useful patents quickly and efficiently.

“We would like you to find the best patents in this pile of 50,000 candidates. Oh, and we need it done for $30K.” We hear requests like this so often we’ve built processes and tools to help us address them. Our team has over 60 years of experience developing, evaluating, monetizing, litigating, and licensing patents; we’d like to share some of our experience and methodology with you.

Let’s return to that pile of 50,000 patents – how can we find the highest quality patents reliably and efficiently?